User talk:BryanG/Archive 3

Democrat Party
Back in June, you participated in a wiki discussion about deleting an article called “Democrat Party (United States).” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Democrat_Party_%28United_States%29). It was agree to delete this article and redirect it to Democratic Party (United States) -- the real name of the Democratic Party. However, someone has revived the Democrat Party article. Would you care to weigh in on this at that article’s Talk page? I think a redirect is in order in accordance with the decision we reached last June. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.38.76 (talk • contribs) 06:02, 29 November 2006
 * I seem to be a little late to the party (apparently you missed my "retirement" notice"), sorry. Anyway, the version I'm reading now (at a different and better name) looks much better than the article I wanted deleted, and as mentioned on Talk:Democrat Party (phrase), consensus can change. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't !vote to delete this new version, and at any rate I'm not sure the new article is substantially similar enough to the old article to fall under the original AfD anyway. BryanG(talk) 03:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Hey, thanks so much for supporting my recent RFA. A number of editors considered that I wasn't ready for the mop yet and unfortunately the RFA did not succeed (69/26/11). There are a number of areas which I will be working on (including changing my username) in the next few months in order to allay the fears of those who opposed my election to administrator.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for your support over the past week. I've been blown away by the level of interest taken in my RFA and appreciate the time and energy dedicated by all the editors who have contributed to it, support, oppose and neutral alike. I hope to bump into you again soon and look forward to serving you and Wikipedia in any way I can. Cheers! The Rambling Man 19:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC) (the non-admin, formerly known as Budgiekiller)

Deletion of "Tom Myers"
In case you're alarmed by the sudden rate of editing going on at this particular page, I was merely removing disparaging comments about my character that some one posted on that page TWICE in the same day. I had no idea that this page existed until some informed me about it a week ago. I am honored to have been included in Wikipedia, and I am trying to make sure that, for everyone's sake, the information on there is accurate. ~TOM —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.166.9.2 (talk) 16:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC).
 * Replied here. BryanG(talk) 20:25, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome! Maltara 23:41, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Always a pleasure to welcome new users, happy editing! BryanG(talk) 23:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

User warning templates
whoa, i've never seen that before. thanks for the tip. should those ALWAYS be used for warning templates? Cheers! Murderbike 02:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Heads up: AFDs needing closing
,, DogJesterExtra 02:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Based on the RFCU case I don't really need to reply, but for anyone else coming here I'm not an administrator, and per the deletion process guidelines I generally only close AfDs when the article's been speedy deleted by an admin and they failed to close it themselves. BryanG(talk) 23:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm...
Is your middle initial C? Tom e rtalk  04:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope. BryanG(talk) 22:37, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

University of Wisconsin-River Falls
my original intent was to back up with sourced statements, but you didn't give me time. you are quick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.225.242.164 (talk • contribs) 07:18, 11 February 2007
 * Replied on anon's talk, moved above comment into new section for clarity. BryanG(talk) 07:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Re comment on User talk:71.75.89.54
yea, i realized the incident a moment too late, i was trying to add a new section about some new laws that are being debated in congress as of right now, i apologize sincerely for the accident, it will not happen again. I take responsibility for the incident, and again I am very sorry, I could not figure out who to contact about the deal. Thanks for messaging me and not "punishing" me lol. Wikipedia is a part of my everyday life, also a part of my frequent college reports, projects, and 12 page papers that seem to be every week lol. Have a good day.

sincerely,

Mitch Mc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.75.89.54 (talk • contribs)
 * No problem, accidents happen all the time around here. And don't get me started about 12 page papers... BryanG(talk) 06:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

List of CE and SE games
You might be interested to know the article was deleted without an AfD tag, so is currently undergoing deletion review here [] and might subsequently end up in another AfD.

Redirect of Military Executor
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Super Mario RPG lists
Currently, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars has two lists pertaining to it (List of characters in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars). User:TTN decided it would be best to merge the lists into the main article and split Smithy Gang into those articles. I recently merged Smithy Gang into the list of chatacters by removing the non-notable characters, and I have asserted that a cameo section in the list of characters is valid, per Trivia sections and Handling trivia that uses Alex Trebek as a good example. I have suggested that we rename the articles per Requested moves to something along the lines of Characters of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and World of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars or Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars) just like Characters of Final Fantasy VIII and World of Final Fantasy VI or Gaia (Final Fantasy VII). I believe if these articles are to evolve beyond a non-notable list, they should be renamed. For example, List of Final Fantasy VII locations was merged into Gaia (Final Fantasy VII), because a World article is notable, but a simple list of locations is not. That is why there are other secions of the article to make it a World article. It simply has not been renamed yet.

TTN believes the citations in the development and reception sections of the list of locations, books and magazines, are trivial sources. When I added that the 3D perspective of the game is reminicent of Equinox to the main article, TTN removed it since my souce was "the opinions of the Nintendo Power player's guide writers". Although it was actually Nintendo Power magazine, I do believe a magazine is a reliable source, and I gave a page from Next Generation Magazine which also said the same thing. In addition, I was surprized that TTN said that it was from the players guide, since he claims to own the players guide for the game. He has not verified this, since I asked him for citations in May, "Could you look in the back of the Player's Guide and tell me what “types” of … Magic? I forgot what they call it in the game … well, anyways, what types of Special Attack or whatever it is (actually, could you find out what it's called?) there are? I remember some vaguely when I owned the guide like “Fire”, “Jump”, “Electricity?”, etc. Could you provide a citation, like the page number with a quote in context?" TTN replied that he was going to "get to it" (User talk:TTN/Archive 5). TTN claims the player's guide is "at the bottom of a box that's behind at least five others in a cramped space". Seeing that TTN did not recognize that the page was not from the player's guide when I provided a scan of the page in question from Nintendo Power shocked me. However, I have continued to assume good faith by not questioning TTN's honesty.

Per Consensus, I have offered five different reasonable, temporary compromises that might integrate my idea with TTN's. TTN rejected my compromise because it still keeps the articles. I agreed I would consider a redirect, but Article size does not allow that, since the list of locations is currently 82 KB long. Instead, I agreed to help cut down the geography section that is the bulk of the article, but TTN rejected that as well because TTN states, "I am not interested in working on the article in regards to improving it." and "get past this "having sources automatically means that this information is good" mentality." TTN states, "I don't think they have or will ever assert notability." I have replied with, "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so if you don't think the articles will ever assert notability, we cannot yet know this, per Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions.
 * 1) Go over the list of characters so we can delete non–notable characters
 * 2) Rename the articles by following the steps at Requested moves.
 * 3) Cut down the geography section list of locations by cutting it into the regional maps the adventures use when traveling from one to another. I can get pictures and write the fair use rationals, and someone can cut down the text that has no citation and does not allude to other media.
 * 4) Write the concept and creation and reception sections for the list of characters
 * 5) Write the concept and creation section for the main article

Would you please take a look at Talk:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and give us your thoughts? Taric25 01:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Trivia
Hi, I hope this isn't canvassing but I was wondering if you would be interested in this WikiProject Trivia and Popular Culture. Thanks Ozmaweezer 13:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello
I am very new here...maybe 5 weeks. I am captivated by the width and breathe and potential of Wikipedia. It has replaced internet poker as my "residence". In my wanderings thru the nooks and crannies, I searched for a focal point...a base of operation. Early on, I started to read discussion pages and soon realized how much time was being "wasted" in defense of or promotion of such miniscule factors within articles. I also realized how entrenched POV's can become. I had a few little battles, felt sucessful, but realized that POV battling was not the arena that I wanted to be drawn into.

Let me get to the point of why I reach out to you. In my travels within WikiWorld I started to realize that quality editors (my POV) were leaving. Of course, I wondered why. Let me say, reading your page and others like it was VERY enlightening and rewarding. And it tied into an idea I had a week or two back. Maybe, with a little help from my friends(?), I could be like Mighty Mouse and "Save the Day". Or maybe it would be a place I could hang my hat for a few hours a day and get some real work done. What is it, you ask? (at least I hope you ask). "IT" is only in the Genisis stage. It's still in the shell,so to speak. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/wikiknights I hope it sounds interesting to you. Please let me know what you think. Maybe its not "planted" in the right place...maybe its a reinvention of the wheel and is already in place...maybe it will become my own little windmill. I dont know. Thanks for your time and good luck. --Buster7 (talk) 12:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

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Merging
Hi Bryan,

Thanks for the tip regarding merging articles, I will do so in the future ;)

Cheers, TWIWD —Preceding unsigned comment added by That'sWhatIWould'veDone (talk • contribs) 17:48, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, always happy to help. BryanG (talk) 19:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Advice
Thanks for the advice on redirecting after an article merge. MacMed (talk) 16:54, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Proof about EVR Race being first Nintendo game
I'm not the one who added the bit about EVR Race on the Nintendo page, but I saw you quickly deleted it without asking why it was added. Sure, there were no links, but that doesn't mean it's not true. See, I'll direct you here: TO AN OFFICIAL NINTENDO WEBSITE. Straight from Miyamoto's mouth:


 * Miyamoto: "A long time ago, Takeda-san made an arcade game called EVR Race."
 * Takeda: "The horse race game we released around 1975. When that was made, Miyamoto-san was…"
 * Miyamoto: "Still a student. (laughs) EVR Race was the first video game Nintendo released."
 * Iwata: "So that's why Takeda-san is Nintendo's first game designer." --Bentendo24 (talk) 15:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my bad. Given that EVR Race is a redlink and Nintendo is the type of article that gets hit by IP vandals more often than not I just assumed it was nonsense. Thanks for correcting me! BryanG (talk) 21:45, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shuttee
Sorry about causing the extra work there. Must have copied over the same template twice and didn't notice. Thanks. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 16:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Olympic task
Thank you and I try best. Matis Song —Preceding unsigned comment added by MatisSong (talk • contribs) 10:53, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Network television schedules
Hi Bryan,

Your input at Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not would be greatly appreciated. Firsfron of Ronchester 14:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up, though I'm afraid I've haven't helped your cause any... I'm sold on the out-of-context argument. BryanG (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Third opinion
You commented at Articles for deletion/The U. There appears to be a need for a third opinion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities if you have a mind for it. Uncle G (talk) 02:00, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks to have died down now? In any case the current version of U of Miami looks okay enough to me - my main interest in the above AfD was to make sure The U didn't redirect to a specific university, which remains the case - though the existence of refs might make a disambiguation page more viable than I believed then. I'll try to monitor but as it says above I'm pretty busy right now, so feel free to poke me if it flares up again. BryanG (talk) 22:54, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Chronology of Star Wars
An AFD discussion that you have previously participated in has been reignited. See here for more the new discussion. Dale 10:58, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * While I'm sure you meant well, please don't canvass people for comments in a second AfD, especially only to one side of the old debate as is reported here. I do check AfD fairly regularly even when it appears I'm not active, and canvassing does nothing but throw suspicion on any !votes that I or other canvassed editors make. BryanG (talk) 20:53, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Miss you Bryan!
I long for the days when you and I updated the Brewers season page together. I need your help; your monthly summaries were so good. I CAN'T DO THIS ON MY OWN!

Love, Dmeyferth21 (talk) 14:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

It's live
See Future Films  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 07:02, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me, although a link from WP:NFF or somewhere else appropriate would be nice (if only for visibility). BryanG (talk) 03:56, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

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Regarding Raksha Bandhana
I posted last year w/ credible sources and still have yet to see a response or a correction in the title and article. can you please let me know what's going on here? 24.233.253.5 (talk) 18:00, 25 October 2014 (UTC)